This panel seeks to explore various dimensions of pain in French and Francophone literature. How is pain represented? What are the moral, aesthetic, and epistemological stakes of such representation? Does the staging of pain shape or distress textual integrity or architecture? Might we speak of a textual pain? How do pained and painful narratives affect the reader? Please send 300-word abstracts by September 30 to Tali Zechory, tzechory@fas.harvard.edu.

cfp categories:

cultural_studies_and_historical_approaches

eighteenth_century

ethnicity_and_national_identity

gender_studies_and_sexuality

interdisciplinary

medieval

poetry

postcolonial

renaissance

romantic

theatre

theory

twentieth_century_and_beyond

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